Greetings,
I'm running lucid 5.2.5 on an HP laptop and the battery icon in the systray doesn't show battery level of consumption and stays grey all the time.
Curiously, if I left-click the battery icon, a window pops up and gives me a whole bunch of information regarding the battery including it's current level of consumption.
Anyone else experiencing the same.
TIA
Cheers

cat /proc/acpi/battery/*/info_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

On one hand, Puppy seems to know what's going on with the battery, on the other hand it won't show me what's going on with it.
And it's sad because, only this week, I've had the laptop die on me more than 20 times already because of it running out of battery.
On my wife's Asus netbook, the icon works properly.
TIA
Cheers

EDIT:
Here's a printscreen of the window that shows up when I double click the status bar battery icon.
Please note the "remaining capacity" figure. It is actually working.
Also please note the status bar battery icon. It's always like that regardless of if I am using the battery charger or if I'm only on battery. Always grey.

Try this,
Download and install this version of power applet
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01837_________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

I'm having the same problem with Lupu 5.2.5 on an Asus Eeepc 900. I'm running it off a USB stick. My problem is that the battery indicator in the system tray is always blinking and showing 1%, unless it is being charged.

I installed pwidgits and that gave me a properly working battery indicator. The problem is the system tray indicator is still there and blinking. Since that is very distracting, I would like to get rid of it. Any ideas on how to do that?

BTW, I haven't had that problem with older versions of Puppy or Puppeee.

Hi Kehn,
This is issue is very strange.
If you look at this printscreen from my laptop running Lucid you will see that my laptop knows that it is charging and it know the remaining capacity and it knows the battery's full capacity.
So, I can't understand why the icon on the systray doesn't work.
Doesn't make any sense to me.
Could someone more literate on Linux/Puppy help me understand this?
Apart from this everything else bundled with the OS works perfectly.
Though, I would add Suspend to RAM and a Bluetooth backend to Lucid, both maybe as optional SFS?
I guess nowadays every OS should have Suspend/Hibernate features and Bluetooth is also a must have for laptops.
So, can someone help me out?
TIA
Cheers

I think that is how the indicator looks when charging.
It is suppose to change when running from battery only._________________I have found, in trying to help people, that the things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected

I had the same issue and probably wasted days to find out how to find some solution... Just to note I have Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 running on HP Compaq Evo N600c, and it was really bugging me as I totally forgot about battery few times (there was no warning so there was some nice surprises when computer died )

Anyway, I am also interested if there is a way to fix this problem.
In the meantime I used pbatt monitor from here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36492
It also had 2 problems, first one was discussed in topic that your battery name can be different that bat0 or bat1 (in my case it was C19F) so I had to change line 34 in bevent (you will see this in topic). Second problem was that I didn't have apm icons in my /usr/local/lib/x11/mini-icons so I made them myself.

Anyway, it was major hassle as this is my first linux experience, and I think this is just some glitch and it wasn't supposed to be like this. If anyone have some regular solution I would love to hear it.

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